The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.

As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.

Sometimes I see it [a foul by an Arsenal player], but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players and because I could not find any rational explanation for what they did.

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

Gerard is an open-minded and passionate man. I am the opposite: stubborn and stupid. But sometimes stupid behaviour makes you win.

We played a whole season unbeaten but you did not see me every week jumping on the tables. Once it's over it's over and you do in the next one as well as you can. Plenty of managers who have won the Champions League will not be considered great managers.

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.